Teakle Wines Riesling 2025
- 90
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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I’m not sure what wildflowers grow at Port Lincoln, but I suspect this is exactly the scent that covers the countryside and greets chief winemaker, Liz Heidenreich every vintage when she is making Riesling: acacia, wild florals and spring blossom with citrus, green apple. Introduces savoury touches to the palate in lemon skin tartness and preserved lemon which works so well with the brisk acidity. It’s quite an individual style of Riesling with a super dry, tart pithiness to close that brings mental images of sucking on a grapefruit. Could benefit from more time in the bottle.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
